Browser Extension Vote-Counter (early demo)

[JacksonVirgo]

maybe most salient is broken quote tags that allow a quoted vote to look like the poster's vote

I was going to bring this up. Also might need to ignore votes within spoiler tags as well as they're invalid also.

A weird solution may be to check if a closing tag for spoiler or a quote is after the vote. If so, invalidate it.

[Psyche]

Some other cases that might be tough to flag:
- Bold tags with mix of natural language and potential votes (rule to have votes in their own line has been used to avoid this)
- Mispellings or stylizations of "vote" (or unvote) within bold tags
- particularly salient example of the ambiguity here:

Hammer: Psyche

Could require vote tags, but the more rules like this you add, the greater the possibility that someone misinterprets a moderator-ignored vote as a real vote and does something that violates game integrity. But there are ways to reduce that risk too -- like constant reminders of vote counting policies.

True solution is of course a complete separation of vote and post UI.